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A family discusses the value of honesty around the dinner table.

Definition

  1. Noun:

    • The importance, worth, or usefulness of something: The quality that makes something desirable, useful, or important.
    • A person's principles or standards of behavior; one's judgment of what is important in life: Often used in the plural form "values".
    • The monetary worth of something; the amount of money something could be sold for: The price or cost of an item or service.
    • (In art) The relative lightness or darkness of a color.
    • (In music) The relative duration of a musical note.

  2. Verb:

    • To consider something to be important or beneficial; to hold in high regard: To think that someone or something is worth a lot.
    • To estimate the monetary worth of something: To decide how much money something is worth.
Usage Examples

  • Noun:

    • The value of this painting lies in its historical significance, not its price.
    • Honesty and kindness are core values in their family.
    • The market value of the house has increased.
    • The artist skillfully used light and dark values to create depth.

  • Verb:

    • I value your friendship more than anything.
    • The estate agent will value the property next week.
Advanced Usage
  • "To be of value": to be useful or important.
    • This old manual is still of great value to collectors.
  • "To get good value for money": to receive something worth the amount you paid.
    • This restaurant offers excellent food; you really get good value for your money.
  • "Face value": the apparent worth or meaning of something, taken at first glance without questioning it.
    • You shouldn't take his promises at face value.
Variants and Related Words
  • Valuable (adj): worth a lot of money or extremely useful or important.
    • She gave me some valuable advice.
  • Valuation (n): an estimation of something's worth.
    • The bank required a professional valuation of the business.
  • Valued (adj): considered to be important or beneficial; cherished.
    • She is a valued member of the team.
Synonyms
  • Noun: Worth, importance, merit, cost, price, principle.
  • Verb: Appreciate, cherish, esteem, assess, appraise, rate.
Related Phrasal Verbs
  • Value something as: To consider something to have a particular quality or status.
    • This land is valued as a protected wildlife area.
  • Value something at: To state that something has a particular monetary worth.
    • The painting was valued at over a million dollars.
Related Idioms
  • Take something at face value: to accept something as it appears to be without looking for a hidden meaning.
    • He said he was busy, and I took that at face value.
  • Surplus value: (in economics) the difference between the amount raised through the sale of a product and the cost of producing it.
  • Value judgment: an assessment of something as good or bad based on one's own standards or opinions.
    • Calling his art "childish" is a subjective value judgment.
value

A family discusses the value of honesty around the dinner table.

Noun
  1. an ideal accepted by some individual or group
    • he has old-fashioned values
  2. (music) the relative duration of a musical note
  3. relative darkness or lightness of a color
    • I establish the colors and principal values by organizing the painting into three values--dark, medium...and light-Joe Hing Lowe
  4. the amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else
    • he tried to estimate the value of the produce at normal prices
  5. the quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
    • the Shakespearean Shylock is of dubious value in the modern world
  6. a numerical quantity measured or assigned or computed
    • the value assigned was 16 milliseconds
Verb
  1. estimate the value of
    • How would you rate his chances to become President?
    • Gold was rated highly among the Romans
  2. evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of
    • I will have the family jewels appraised by a professional
    • access all the factors when taking a risk
  3. regard highly; think much of
    • I respect his judgement
    • We prize his creativity
  4. hold dear
    • I prize these old photographs
  5. fix or determine the value of; assign a value to
    • value the jewelry and art work in the estate

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